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Gerhard Schöfl

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Head of Bioinformatics at DKMS Life Science Lab
📍 Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Dr. Gerhard Schöfl is the Head of Bioinformatics at DKMS Life Science Lab in Dresden, Germany, specializing in immunogenetics and high-resolution HLA genotyping. A graduate of the University of Vienna and Vetmeduni Vienna, his expertise spans NGS sequencing, population genetics, and predictive modeling with R to support stem cell donor registries.

Beyond his primary work, Dr. Schöfl is multilingual, speaking fluent English and Norwegian, with proficiency in Czech. He has a passion for education, having previously served as an external lecturer in statistics and data analysis, teaching workshops on using R for linear regression and data modeling.

His team has developed workflows to genotype over a million samples for killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) genes.

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Experience
19 Years
Current Role
Head of Bioinformatics
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
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HLA Genotyping
Leads a team focused on high-resolution, sequence-based HLA genotyping and has published extensively on new methods using Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS).
NGS Technologies
His work involves leveraging NGS for ultra-high-volume HLA and KIR typing, developing automated workflows for complex data analysis.
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Career

Work history

1-2017
Head of Bioinformatics
DKMS Life Science Lab
8-2014 - 12-2016
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist
DKMS Life Science Lab
4-2014 - 2-2016
External Lecturer in Statistics and Data Analysis
Graduate Academy Jena
1-2010 - 7-2014
Research Scientist
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute
2006 - 2009
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
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Education
2002 - 2005
Dr. rer. nat.
Vetmeduni
1995 - 2000
Mag. rer. nat.
University of Vienna
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